Devotion Quotes - Page 39

• But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Evil, Done

  Leo Tolstoy, J. M. Packham (2015). “Leo Tolstoy: Letters and Papers”, p.13, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Vegas is the most extreme and allegorical of American settlements, bizarre and beautiful in its venality and in its devotion to immediate gratification.

  Joan Didion

  Beautiful, Vegas, Bizarre

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.64, Zola Books

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• But you must love with a sublime , genuine , profound sympathy , with devotion, with intelligence , and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God , that will lead to an unshakeable faith .

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Profound, Sublime, Trying

  Vincent van Gogh, Victoria Charles (2014). “Vincent van Gogh”, p.136, Parkstone International

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• It appeared to me that the dignity of which human existence is capable is not attainable by devotion to the mechanism of life , and that unless contemplation of eternal things is preserved, mankind will become no better than well-fed pigs.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pigs, Dignity, Contemplation

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Autobiography”, p.149, Routledge

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• Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Loyalty, People, Giving

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1961). “Autobiography”

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• If God is watching us, as some believers suggest, as though we were a television show and God had a lot of free time, the deity would surely be bemused by how dumbed-down devotion has sometimes become in this so-called modern era. How might an omnipotent being with the long view of history respond to those who visit the traveling exhibit of a grilled-cheese sandwich, sold on eBay, that is said to bear the image of the Virgin Mary? It certainly argues against intelligent design, or at least intelligent design in humans.

  Anna Quindlen

  Intelligent, Cheese Sandwiches, Views

  "Frankincense In Aisle Five!". www.newsweek.com. December 25, 2005.

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• To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

  Socrates

  Giving, Matter, Poverty

  "Apology". 23a-c. By Plato. Translated by Benjamin Jowett,

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• a caring that gains only when losing; an obsessed desire to be bound, for love , in jail ; a capitulation to the one you've conquered yourself; a devotion to your own assassin every single day.

  Luis de Camoes

  Caring, Jail, Desire

  Luís de Camões (2008). “Selected Sonnets: A Bilingual Edition”, p.45, University of Chicago Press

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• Even the impossible becomes possible through devotion.

  Sarada Devi

  Impossible Becomes Possible, Impossible

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• My child, I bless you from my heart that you live long, attain devotion, and enjoy peace. Peace is the principal thing. One needs peace alone.

  Sarada Devi

  Children, Heart, Long

  Sarada Devi (1984). “The Gospel of the Holy Mother Sri Sarada Devi”

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• Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep. I can express with very limited adequacy the passionate devotion to this land that possesses millions of our people, born, like myself, under other skies, for the privilege that that this county has bestowed in allowing them to partake of its fellowship.

  Felix Frankfurter

  Gratitude, Land, Sky

  Felix Frankfurter's acceptance speech for an award from the National Institute for Immigrant Welfare at Biltmore Hotel in New York, May 11, 1933.

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• Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Pain, Light, Giving

  "Intuitions and Summaries of Thought" by Christian Nestell Bovee, Vol. I, (p. 161), 1862.

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• Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.

  Paul Russo

  Creating, Leaving, Genius

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• To me, the Craft is what Christianity was 2,000 years ago. It was a religion that was not corrupted. I personally think Jesus was a Crafter. We believe in all the things that he spoke of. The early Christians believed in reincarnation, and that was later removed from the belief system. Early Christians had a female Divinity, and that was taken out of their belief system, or as with Catholicism, replaced with Mary. Look at how incredible the growth in devotion of Mary is. It's amazing. The desire for a female Divinity is not just Wiccan. It speaks of a global need.

  Silver RavenWolf

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

  "The Truth about Witchcraft with Silver RavenWolf". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. November 1, 1997.

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• If you desire anything less for yourself than absolute obedience to God, a life of total devotion to the Lord, a life of absolute sin-less-ness - if you desire anything less, you are fighting against God's desire for you.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Fighting, Desire, Sin

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• The greatest competitor of devotion to Jesus is service to Him. It is never 'Do, do' with the Lord, but 'Be, be' and He will 'do' through you. The only way to keep true to God is by a steady persistent refusal to be interested in Christian work and to be interested alone in Jesus Christ.

  Oswald Chambers

  Christian, Jesus, Way

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• Much has been written about the loyalty of dogs, but what I love about them isn't their devotion to me so much as their devotion to being alive.

  Steven Bauer

  Loyalty, Dog, Alive

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• God uses millions of no-name influencers every day in the simplest selfless acts of service.  They are the teachers whose names will never be in the newspaper, pastors who will never author a book, managers who will never be profiled in a magazine, artists whose work is buried in layers of collaboration, writers whose sphere of influence is a few dozen people who read their blogs.  But they are the army that makes things happen.  To them devotion is its own reward.  For them influence is a continual act of giving, nothing more complicated than that.

  Mel Lawrenz

  Teacher, Book, Army

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• Service is the overflow which pours from a life filled with love and devotion.

  Oswald Chambers

  Overflow, Filled

  Oswald Chambers (2013). “Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers”, p.3, Discovery House

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• We need to remember that the first disciples were ordinary men called to an extraordinary mission. Their devotion to Jesus outweighed- by hair- their fears and insecurities. As a result God change them and use them to accomplish some mind-boggling things. Why couldn't God - why wouldn't God do the same in your life?

  Max Lucado

  Jesus, Men, Hair

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• Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave.

  Ronald Reagan

  Marine, Keys, Light

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Freemasonry is an order whose leading star is philanthropy and whose principles inculcate an unceasing devotion to the cause of virtue and morality.

  George Washington

  Stars, Order, Principles

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• If you are weary of some sleepy form of devotion, probably God is as weary of it as you are.

  Frank Laubach

  Sleepy, Form, Weary

  Frank Laubach (2012). “Letters by a Modern Mystic: Excerpts from letters written to his father by Frank C. Laubach”, p.45, SPCK

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• Nursing is an art: and if it is to be made an art, it requires an exclusive devotion as hard a preparation as any painter's or sculptor's work; for what is the having to do with dead canvas or dead marble, compared with having to do with the living body, the temple of God's spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts: I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.

  Florence Nightingale

  Life, Art, Hard Work

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